HUD awarded nearly $2 billion to 5800 local homeless assistance programs across the country. These grants are called HUD’s Continuum of Care.

“Renewing these grants will come as a huge relief to these providers, and it will allow them to continue their work to house and serve our most vulnerable neighbors,” said HUD Secretary Ben Carson.

View a complete list of the state and local programs receiving HUD’s Continuum of Care (CoC) funding here.

This funding supports various forms of intervention. These programs are designed to help people who are particularly living in places “not meant for habitation.” HUD is also challenging state and local organizations to support the programs that have proven to be most effective and helpful to those in need. In addition, HUD is pushing these organizations to divert their funding of underperforming programs to HUD’s more effective programs.

In the same release, HUD relayed national homelessness reports taken by local communities across the nation. Although overall homelessness numbers remained largely unchanged, there were substantial changes in homelessness numbers for particular subgroups in 2018.

The number of families that experienced homelessness declined 2.7% since 2017, and 29% since 2010.

And the number of veterans experiencing homelessness fell by 5.4% since 2017, and 49% since 2010.

For more information, you can view HUD’s release here.